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Record Nr.

UNISA996508665803316

Autore

Hanagaki Kazunori

Titolo

Experimental Techniques in Modern High-Energy Physics [[electronic resource] ] : A Beginner‘s Guide / / by Kazunori Hanagaki, Junichi Tanaka, Makoto Tomoto, Yuji Yamazaki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tokyo : , : Springer Japan : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022

ISBN

4-431-56931-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (155 pages)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Physics, , 1616-6361 ; ; 1001

Altri autori (Persone)

TanakaJunichi

TomotoMakoto

YamazakiYuji

Disciplina

539.7

Soggetti

Nuclear physics

System theory

Mathematical physics

Nuclear and Particle Physics

Complex Systems

Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Basic Idea of Measurements in Particle Collisions -- Apparatus -- Statistics -- Detector Calibration -- Particle Identification -- Event Simulation -- Examples of Physics Analysis.

Sommario/riassunto

This open access book offers a concise overview of how data from large scale experiments are analyzed and how technological tools are used in practice, as in the search for new elementary particles. It focuses on interconnects between physics and detector technology in experimental particle physics, and includes descriptions of mathematical approaches. Readers find all the important steps in analysis, including reconstruction of the momentum and energy of particles from detector information, particle identification, and also the general concept of simulating particle production from collisions and detector responses. As the scale of scientific experiments becomes larger and data-intensive science emerges, the techniques used in the data analysis become ever more complicated, making it difficult for beginners to



grasp the overall picture. The book provides an explanation of the idea and concepts behind the methods, helping readers understand journal articles on high energy physics. This book is engaging as it does not overemphasize mathematical formalism and it gives a lively example of how such methods have been applied to the Higgs particle discovery in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments, which led to Englert and Higgs being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2013. Graduate students and young researchers can easily obtain the required knowledge on how to start data analyses from these notes, without having to spend time in consulting many experts or digesting huge amounts of literature.